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Introduction

Greetings to everyone. We hope everyone enjoyed participating in the Week5 season9 of our contest which was base on Cryptocurrency Mining. we will be giving our summary of how things went during the contest window and in this summary, we will be discussing about the valid, invalid entries, plagiarism cases, general performance of participants and top3 winners of the contest

For last week, the contest was centered on "Cryptocurrency Mining" . In this theme, users where ask to answer the following questions - Name The various types of mining methods for cryptocurrency - Have you ever been involved in cryptocurrency mining? If yes can you share with us how you mined this coin? - Give some of the Importance and benefits of cryptocurrency mining - Name some of the challenges of cryptocurrency mining We were delighted to receive and review all entries that took part in this contest theme. So far, we have registered a good number of entries during the week and we are glad that some of the entries were great because the users performed well during the contest theme. Without further ado, let's dive directly to the general stats and top3 winners. ![Divider.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZsCs3hxbFYfB1naY8BRycxss8bpjyDARDk4U3xuf5Dry/Divider.png)

General Statistics

For the just-concluded week-5 contest, we received a total of 28 entries within the contest's validity period. We recorded 2 invalid entries to this contest. We didn't notice any form of plagiarism during the contest window. We will continue working hard to completely eradicate plagiarism in the Crypto Academy. Henceforth, we hope to continue seeing pure and genuine content creators at this academy and steemit out larg. Let's take a look at the table below.

Total Entries	Invalid Entries	Plagiarized Content
28	02	00

Performance Distribution

From statistics, it seems most users didn't understand the contest theme very well because just 2 entries got a score of 9 and above, 9 entries scored between 8 to 8.9, 2 7 entries got the score between 7 to 7.9, then 6 entries got average score of 5 to 6.9. We notice 2 entries were below average and hence they failed in the contest. From the metric above, We would like to encourage users who didn't score too high or who scored below average to improve on their entries and presentation subsequently. ![Divider.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZsCs3hxbFYfB1naY8BRycxss8bpjyDARDk4U3xuf5Dry/Divider.png)

Week3 Top 3 Users

We have come out with our selection of the top 3 users in the last week's contest on understanding the Steem Blockchain. The selection process is not only considered base on scores alone but it's considered base on both scores and general engagement with other participants in the contest.

There are some articles that scored high but didn't engaged with other entries and as such, they were left out of the selection. They didn't engagement to comments under their post and were more focused in others articles. It should be noted that this is an engagement challenge and we hope users can engage to the best of their ability.

Ranking	Username	Article
1	@hamzayousafzai	Link
2	@marianaceleste	Link
3	@aaliarubab	Link

**Many many congratulations to all the winners of this contest** ![Divider.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZsCs3hxbFYfB1naY8BRycxss8bpjyDARDk4U3xuf5Dry/Divider.png)

We hereby appreciate all of you who took part in this contest, your efforts were great and we encourage all those who didn't perform well to try their best subsequently. We also urge y'all to take engagement very serious in other to have a chance of winning. A new contest is running already and we look forward to your participation. ![Divider.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZsCs3hxbFYfB1naY8BRycxss8bpjyDARDk4U3xuf5Dry/Divider.png) Have a blessed week y'all